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by Tacascarow
28 Apr 2016, 10:26pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: EU referendum: stay or remain? Leave or stay?
Replies: 137
Views: 4945

Re: EU referendum: stay or remain? Leave or stay?

Mick F wrote:
Tacascarow wrote:Cornwall has received a lot of EU money.
Dunno where you live, but if you read the stuff going on in Cornwall, no-one has seen any dosh that's made a difference. Cornwall is still a poor county with much unemployment and deprivation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33360841
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cornwall
A report in 2015 found European Union funding failed to create an expected 10,000 new jobs in Cornwall, creating only 3,557 jobs
There's more out there.
Can't be bothered to find more, but if you want to search, it's there.
You can't blame the EU if the money has been mismanaged by others.
I know a lot of EU money was available on a match funding basis & no one would do the match. Again not the fault of the EU. But a lot more could have been given if business or government had stepped up to the mark.
Cornwall would be a whole lot poorer without.
Parts of rural England, Scotland & Wales would be economic deserts without EU category 1 funding in my humble opinion.
We have a government who only care about the square mile of London where the bankers work.

But as I said before my primary concern of exit is environmental destruction & lack of funding in environmental projects.
All the major reserves & restoration projects around me have been funded by the EU.
Not making many jobs or generating much for the economy but certainly making a county I love a whole lot nicer to live in.
by Tacascarow
28 Apr 2016, 4:55pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: EU referendum: stay or remain? Leave or stay?
Replies: 137
Views: 4945

Re: EU referendum: stay or remain? Leave or stay?

Cornwall has received a lot of EU money. They have granted the Cornish minority status & my Tory MP wants to leave.
Those are three very good reasons to stay in my book. So MickF you will have to hop over the border mate :wink:
On a more serious note much of the money spent on conservation has come from the EU & our recent governments have ignored the environment because the birds & bees don't vote.
That's the main reason I want to stay in.
by Tacascarow
27 Apr 2016, 6:10pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Disability Benefits
Replies: 41
Views: 2150

Re: Disability Benefits

Geoff.D wrote:
jan19 wrote:
Not your answer, but being disabled myself I don't not understand why I have to stand in the same line as drug addicts and alcoholics, it may be a disability, but it is self induced there has to be a difference.


Disability isn't always obvious. Any of these people could have mental health issues, which are just as much of a disability as physical ones, and the drug taking/alcoholism could be as a consequence of those.

Jan


+1
A short while ago Ian Hyslop did a programme on TV about how the Victorians approached the questions of poverty and how to deal with people who were suffering poverty. He explored the two descriptions - "deserving and undeserving poor", and how these two categories were manifest in the operations of the workhouses. Even as "undeserving" my own cousins' experiences in workhouses still blight their memories. It was never a dignified system.
Hyslop's concluding observation was that this dichotomy has prevailed ever since. Society still wants to help those who are in genuine need, but not those who don't deserve it.
But, as far as I can see, the line in the sand is not fixed. Defining "deserving" against "undeserving" (what awful descriptors) can be a matter of political, philosophical, theological, ideological belief. It can be impossible to identify in real life situations. The definitions can change as the country becomes more affluent.
My own feeling is that drawing extremely hard and fast lines in the sand risks missing those in real need.

+2
No one, even those who prepare meticulously, can predict when disability will hit.
& It hits everyone eventually.
Few live to four score in full health then pop off in their sleep.
For most it's a protracted affair & this government are determined to make health & social care a private business which will cost more than the majority can afford.
If nothing else a little humility to those already there would be good for the soul or the karma depending on which way you swing.
:wink:
by Tacascarow
27 Apr 2016, 5:58pm
Forum: Racing, Olympics, TdF, Competitive cycling
Topic: Shane Sutton suspended.
Replies: 10
Views: 7620

Re: Shane Sutton suspended.

If it's true that he called paralympians 'gimps' & 'wobblies' as reported then good riddance as far as I'm concerned.
by Tacascarow
25 Apr 2016, 8:52am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Disability Benefits
Replies: 41
Views: 2150

Re: Disability Benefits

blackbike wrote:I have a disabled relative. He will never be independent and will never work for a living.

I want all the taxpayer money available for helping the disabled to go to people like him who really need it, not people who are only disabled by newer, dubious definitions invented by governments in the 80s and 90s to keep unemployment figures down.

The collusion between governments and the medical profession to label so many people as disabled and unfit for work was a shameful episode in our recent history.

I'm disabled.
In the womb I was a healthy 9lb 12oz baby but during birth my right arm was dislocated, nerves where damaged & I now have a partially paralysed weak right arm with limited movement.

Now this doesn't stop me from doing anything, but because it's visible some treat me like I've half a brain.
I'm not at the top of the pile academically but I'm also far from the bottom, I'm no fool.
I spent years trying to find work & have taken jobs which where far from suitable & dangerous on very poor wages.

Statistics prove that even when all things are equal the disabled are at the thin end when it comes to employment.
This government has used the disabled as scapegoats & excuses so they could inflict their own anti welfare dogma onto the country dressed as austerity.
Hate crime against the disabled has risen by over 200% since 2010.
So when I read clap trap like you have written here I wonder who's really disabled?
by Tacascarow
15 Apr 2016, 10:26am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Tax and income transparency
Replies: 37
Views: 1389

Re: Tax and income transparency

Nor have we seen his wife or children accounts of which there is no need to declare in members interests.
He claims his wife owns a field worth £77,000 but the "field" is a 3% share in her fathers estate that is pushing for planning to build 1,000 homes. SamCams "field" could be worth £600,000 if permission is given & this government is pushing through legislation to make it easier for developers to override local planning authorities?
This is the crunch.
It's got nothing to do with legality.
I'm sure the prime minister & his advisers are very careful on that point.
But the way money influences politics is morally corrupt.
It always has been from local government all the way to the UN.
It's getting worse not better & I don't have an answer.
by Tacascarow
14 Apr 2016, 2:08pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: And now for something completely different
Replies: 8
Views: 659

Re: And now for something completely different

Makes Jim Carey look amateurish.
:D :D
by Tacascarow
12 Apr 2016, 7:59am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Tax and income transparency
Replies: 37
Views: 1389

Re: Tax and income transparency

We currently have a head of the HMRC who used to work for the company that managed Ian Camerons offshore investments?
Some might say his insider knowledge will help him to do his job. But my belief is he will direct his investigators away from his friends.
by Tacascarow
12 Apr 2016, 7:10am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Tax and income transparency
Replies: 37
Views: 1389

Re: Tax and income transparency

What we have seen is a summary. How they get there is still smoke & mirrors IMHO.
There was an excellent radio 4 broadcast about taxation in Norway where all citizens tax details are available online.
Quite a few pluses. Less us & them, more gender pay equality etc.
But this countries political base has been built on inequality from its conception hundreds of years ago so don't expect major changes without a revolution.
by Tacascarow
26 Mar 2016, 5:57pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Weird Tory ideas
Replies: 32
Views: 1646

Re: Weird Tory ideas

Pushed through at close of business on Friday.
Government quietly announces plan to privatise Land Registry on night before Easter holidays
Watch developers snap up any land unclaimed.

Flinders wrote:
Vantage wrote:
reohn2 wrote:Obviously a chap who'd never been on benefits methinks.


I know a chap who voted tory at the election because he was "tired of all the rich benefit claimers".

:lol: :lol: :lol:

An absolute eejit.

For what it's worth, some might be able to save the 50 quid. I'm in the fortunate position that my ESA gives me a bit of wriggle room if I watch the pennies, but I know of others who are regularly visiting the food bank. Those same people are now having their council tax benefit cut because of savings. As if they aren't struggling enough :evil:


There are rich benefit claimers. Landowners, for example, some of whom are subsidised by millions a year by the SFP, who don't even have to produce one crumb of food to get it. Ian Duncan Smith's filthy rich family is one that benefits from the scheme. Grouse moor owners, who, under Cameron, have seen their subsidies per hectare nearly double to £56 per hectare, with some estates getting millions a year. Some people are expected to live on little more than £56 a week. The thing is, the tories don't do anything to stop the really big 'scroungers' because they are their own friends.


Grouse moor owners don't even pay business rates.
by Tacascarow
20 Mar 2016, 8:01pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Identify please (insects)
Replies: 12
Views: 702

Re: Identify please (insects)

Heltor Chasca wrote:Let me know what field guides you need and I'll make recommendations. Nice photos.

I can thoroughly recommend this one.
:)
by Tacascarow
20 Mar 2016, 9:47am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Which Trangia?
Replies: 4
Views: 771

Re: Which Trangia?

If you cook a lot of food that can stick to the bottom then the non stick or anodised is good but the non stick will wear with use the anodised is a lot tougher apparently. (I've yet to test my anodised pans enough to comment).
If you just want to boil water for drinks or boil in the bag meals then the much cheaper plain aluminium is as good as anything.
My trangia 25 non stick set is only a couple of years old & the surfaces are showing wear, but they have had a lot of use.
I bought a Trangia 27 anodised set last year at a budget price & so far so good.
My twenty five year old plain aluminium pans are pitted & dented but still good.
by Tacascarow
12 Mar 2016, 12:20am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Jeremy Corbyn not as left wing as previously thought...
Replies: 19
Views: 1320

Re: Jeremy Corbyn not as left wing as previously thought...

He's not saluting, he's showing how he's going to pat Duncan Smith on the head ala Benny Hill & Jackie Wright.
by Tacascarow
11 Mar 2016, 5:59pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Changing your saddle - what do I need to know?
Replies: 18
Views: 1202

Re: Changing your saddle - what do I need to know?

531colin wrote:Be careful with the kitchen foil/chalk/cardboard etc.
If you sit bolt upright, you are sitting on the back of your bum bones. If you lean forward on your saddle, your weight will be further forward on your bum bones, and they are closer together the further forward you go. If you can't feel your own bum bones (or somebody else's!) there is a great animation here...http://anatomyzone.com/3d_atlas/musculoskeletal/pelvis/pelvic-bone/

That's what I read somewhere, probably on this forum.
The more upright your riding style the wider a saddle you need.
Straight high bars = wider saddle.
Drop bars bum in the air = narrow saddle.